277739603 | Susan B. Anthony | this woman was a leader of the Women's Rights Movement at the Seneca Falls Convention | |
277739604 | Aaron Burr | This man shot and killed Alexander Hamilton and was later tried for treason | |
277739605 | John C. Calhoun | This outspoken man consistently represented the Southern view on nullification | |
277739606 | Dorthea Dix | This women's investigations led to improvement of treatment of the insane | |
277739607 | John Edwards | His "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" highlighted the Great Awakening | |
277739608 | Steven Foster | He was the first well-known American composer | |
277739609 | William Lloyd Garrison | this radical abolitionist published the newspaper called "The Liberator" | |
277739610 | William Henry Harrison | his nickname was "Old Tippecanoe" and he won the election of 1840 as a Whig | |
277739611 | Washington Irving | this man's "Knickerbocker Tales" were among the first pieces of American Literature | |
277739612 | John Jay | he was the first Chief Justice, a diplomat, and an author of the "Federalist" | |
277739613 | Francis Scott Key | This man witnessed the battle at Fort McHenry and wrote our national anthem | |
277739614 | Mary Lyons | this woman was a pioneer in women's higher education | |
277739615 | James Madison | President of the united states during the war of 1812 | |
277739616 | John Noyes | he directed the Utopian group called the Oneida Community | |
277739617 | James Oglethorpe | this philanthropist founded the colony of Georgia | |
277739618 | James K. Polk | this president strongly promoted "Manifest Destiny" and added land to the US | |
277739619 | John Quincy Adams | this man was elected president though another man had more votes | |
277739620 | Sir Walter Raleigh | this early explorer founded the lost colony of Roanoke | |
277739621 | Santa Ana | this Mexican general led the fighting for his side in the Texas and Mexican wars | |
277739622 | Sojourner Truth | this former slave woman became a strong abolitionist speaker | |
277739623 | unicameral | this word descrbies a legislature composed of only one house | |
277739624 | Martin Van Buren | he supported Jackson's controversial actions and earned the office of VP, later president | |
277739625 | Daniel Webster | this ardent unionist gave eloquent speeches in the senate | |
277739626 | xenophobia | this word describes fear of foreigners, that shows itself at "nativism" | |
277739627 | Bringham Young | this man led the Mormons out of Utah after Joseph Smith's death | |
277739628 | John Peter Zenger | his trial for sedition led to greater freedom of the press | |
277739629 | Crispus Attucks | black former-slave and leader of the mob in the Boston Massacre, who was shot by the British; symbol of freedom | |
277739630 | General Benedict Arnold | led the Green Mountain Boys; feeling unappreciated and lured by British gold, he turned traitor by plotting with the British to sell out West Point | |
277739631 | John Brown | fanatic and crazy man who led riot to Pottawatomie Creek and hacked to death pro-slaverists; planned to invade south and start slave revolt | |
277739632 | Henry Clay | ran for president 3 times; failed to save BUS; Compromise of 1850; American System; "The Great Compromiser" | |
277739633 | Davy Crockett | United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836); common man | |
277739634 | Neal S. Dow | "Father of Prohibition" he pushed for anti-alcohol laws (Prohibition Laws) | |
277739635 | Stephen Douglas | senator and Henry Clay's "Little Giant"; helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 then declined Lecompton Constitution; ran for president against Abe Lincoln | |
277739636 | Frederick Douglass | escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action | |
277739637 | George Grenville | prime minister of Britain who ordered that the Navigation Laws be enforced and secured the Sugar Act of 1764 | |
277739638 | Robert Hayne | from South Carolina, he interpreted the Constitution as little more than a treaty between sovereign states during debate against Daniel Webster | |
277739639 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | transcendentalist; non-traditional writer; wrote the scarlet letter | |
277739640 | Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty, or give me death!" governor of Virginia | |
277739641 | Anne Hutchinson | intelligent, strong-willed, talkative woman "antinomianism"= a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the truly saved need not bother to obey the law of either God or man put on trial then lived in Rhode Island |
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